Emancipator Extra. Slave Market of America. Large broadside "extra" from the American Anti-Slavery Society's official newspaper, Emancipator. Nine fine woodcut engravings with copious text captions, printed in 9 different fonts; 27.5 x 21.5 inches;

Emancipator Extra. Slave Market of America. Large broadside "extra" from the American Anti-Slavery Society's official newspaper, Emancipator. Nine fine woodcut engravings with copious text captions, printed in 9 different fonts; 27.5 x 21.5 inches; some archival repairs on verso; creased where folded; very light foxing. Handsomely framed. SHOULD BE SEEN. New York: Published by The American Anti-Slavery Society and printed by Wm. S. Dorr, 1836 E4,000/6,000 RARE BROADSIDE protesting the House vote against passage of any bills to cease slavery in general and the District of Columbia in particular. Woodcuts depict various Washington scenes: slaves being marched before the Capitol building; reading of the Declaration of Independence; the jail in Washington, notorious for jailers selling escaped and free blacks through slave agents in the city (notably J. W. Neal and Company, whose premises are depicted); view of Alexandria harbor with a slave ship receiving her cargo; etc. All are very striking images. After repeated petitions and attempts to legislate against slavery in the nation's capital, "a special committee of the House of Representatives, appointed on February 8, 1836, under the chairmanship of Henry L. Pinckney of South Carolina, recommended the following resolution: 'That all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions, or papers, relating in any way, or to any extent what-ever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon.'" The resolution passed by vote of 117 to 68. Printed at foot of broadside are names, by State of those who voted for Pinckney's resolution. See Dumond. Anti-Slavery, The Crusade for Freedom in America, pages 236-37. [SEE ILLUSTRATION]